I started out as doing a BA in English before moving to science/mathematics so I have way too many stories haha, but I'll share one:

Scene: creative writing advanced (aka 3000)

There was a daughter of a librarian who had a bit of a Dunning–Kruger effect going on with her writing/editing skills and boasted about how much she read. The lecture prescribed a long list of books (which I read) as required course reading.

I didn't like the company much, as someone who is a better editor (kill your darlings) than writer it's no spoiler that she disliked me.

I submitted two end year stories, one was an original work and one was a prank story plagiarised using (stealing) a sentence from every final page of each book the reading list and edit it to make a coherent story. The lecturer was in on the Bob dylan-esque prank and agreed to read out my prank story to see if anyone read the books on the reading list. As well as a prank it was an exercise in editing, which I was told was great but the story itself was meh.

Anyway.

He read my story outloud and it was group critique time.

A few students laughed, for they had read the list and praised it without giving away the joke. A few frowned, but said nothing as they knew I stole but didn't have the chutzpah to say anything.

A few didn't read the list and critiqued it as normal.

The lecturer "praised" my prank story too.

Librarian girl submitted before me and her story was judged mediocre by everyone including the lecturer. A semester of resentment built up she chose critique time to rip my 'original work' to shreds. Amusingly she said: "just because it is original doesn't make it good" and was basically shit talking to use of language by master writers...

...she hadn't read any of the books on the list.